If you’re buying the best beans, using a great coffee machine and still wish your coffee tasted as good as it does at coffee bars, install a carbon filter under your kitchen sink. It removes the chlorine and fluorine from your tap water. Fluorine reacts with the tannins in the coffee beans to create bitterness. For less than $200 and some labor—or 12 weeks worth of a daily Venti® at Starbucks—you can enjoy every cup at home that much more.

In like a lion and out like a lamb? In the midst of the peaceable kingdom, there’s National Peanut Month to celebrate (see our favorites in reviewed in the Snacks Section), as well as National Noodle Month (learn all about pasta) and National Caffeine Awareness Month (lots of great coffee information here). And for everyone celebrating St. Patrick’s Day: See the treats in store in the Table of Contents below. Consider an Irish Whiskey tasting to celebrate...and serve some Irish Smoked Salmon. You can also take an early peek at gourmet Easter gifts in our April issue.

In addition to this monthly online magazine, we e-mail our Top Food Pick Of The Week newsletter to opt-in subscribers. If you don’t already receive it, click here to have it delivered directly to your e-mailbox. Of the thousands of specialty foods we taste each year, these 52 weekly recommendations are our favorites for both home use and gift-giving. You won’t want to miss them!

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